|Periodontal Scaling and Root Planing is a conservative cleaning
procedure meant to remove contamination and infection from beneath the gum. Scaling
removes deposits of bacterial plaque, calculus, food debris, and pus that have accumulated
in the infect pocket due to periodontitis.
Root planing smoothes
and cleans the root of the tooth so that the gum tissue may heal next to the tooth.
Scaling and root planing is usually performed in one section of the mouth at a time using
local anesthesia for your comfort. This non-surgical treatment is often effective in
allowing complete healing of early stages of periodontitis and may reduce the extent of
surgical treatment needed when performed in more advanced stages of gum disease.
|Richard Mao, D.M.D.
Practice Limited to Periodontics
|402 Severn Bldg.
8600 La Salle Rd.
Towson, Md. 21286
|707 N.Hickory Ave.
Bel Air, Md. 21014